Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The accurate colors and fonts returned when NBC's coverage resumed in 2015, and by then this had become common practice for most TV networks for major auto racing series. In 2018, a new secondary leaderboard graphic was introduced and is displayed vertically on the left side of the screen, essentially the same thing as the graphic introduced in ...
The old national racing colours were not so popular among these teams. Honda 's range of street-legal Type-R vehicles are offered in Championship White (Honda colour code NH0) which is similar to the original white that adorned Honda's first F1 car ( Honda RA272 ) driven by Richie Ginther that secured Honda's first ever F1 win in the 1965 ...
On July 28, 2023, NASCAR announced that CW Sports would gain the TV broadcast rights to the Xfinity Series starting in the next TV contract which would begin in 2025. . Unlike the previous 2015 to 2024 TV contract, where Fox and NBC shared the TV rights, The CW would broadcast the full season for the
ESPN broadcast its first race in 1981, from North Carolina Motor Speedway [8] (its first live race was later in the year at Atlanta International Raceway), and TNN followed in 1991. All Cup races were nationally televised by 1985; networks struck individual deals with track owners, and multiple channels carried racing content.
On November 11, 1999, NASCAR signed a contract that awarded the U.S. television rights to its races to four networks (two that would hold the broadcast television rights and two that would hold the cable television rights), split between Fox and sister cable channel FX, and NBC and TBS (whose rights were later assumed by TNT) starting with the 2001 season. [2]
In 2023, Fox adopted a "modernized" update to the NFL graphics at Super Bowl LVII, [92] [93] college football diverged with a new theme, [94] [95] and NHRA coverage debuted new graphics during the U.S. Nationals (via the NHRA's partnership with SMT). [96] A new graphics package for football debuted on February 9, 2025 for Super Bowl LIX.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., whose contract with NASCAR on NBC expired after the 2023 season, will be a color commentator for Amazon and TNT [5] [6] alongside former NASCAR on NBC color commentator Steve Letarte. Letarte and Jr. previously worked together in the booth at NBC and as driver and crew chief at Hendrick Motorsports. [7]
The Indianapolis 500 was only broadcast on tape delay that evening in this era; most races were broadcast only through the final quarter to half of the race, as was the procedure for ABC's Championship Car racing broadcasts; with the new CBS contract, the network and NASCAR agreed to a full live broadcast. That telecast introduced in-car and ...